Florida schools ban cheerleaders from wearing uniforms during school because they are ‘too vulgar'

[KamaAina]

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/highschool-prep-rally/florida-schools-banning-cheerleaders-wearing-uniforms-during-school-155324614.html

School spirit is taking a back seat to fashion propriety in Florida, where a school district is banning its own cheerleaders from wearing their uniforms during the school day.

As first reported by the Tampa Bay Times, the Pinellas School District is refusing to allow cheerleaders at a number of its schools from wearing their uniforms during the school day. According to upset parents, it was decided that the uniforms were against the district's dress code because the sleeveless tops and short skirts that are universally identified with school cheerleaders are deemed "too vulgar."

According to Clearwater (Fl.) Countryside High Principal Gary Schlereth, allowing the cheerleaders to wear their uniforms maintains a double standard for other students who might then feel it was acceptable to wear shorter skirts than they are allowed.

"A parent looks at their son or daughter getting 'dress coded' for wearing something short," Schlereth told the Times. "Then they look at the cheerleading uniform and they say, 'What about that?'"

Um, let me see if I've got this straight. The unies are 'too vulgar' for school? Yet they get to wear them in the school's stadium?

Oh, right. Because Florida.

[woodsprite]

1. They're working on getting funding for a burka-like covering embroidered with the school mascot.

You know, so they can show their school spirit!

[joeybee12]

2. Teh stupid! It burns! nt

[Auggie]

3. Hot looking uniforms, IMO

But yes, the irony of allowing them on the field but not in the classroom is absurd.

[madinmaryland]

5. I figured trumad would post that picture.

[Auggie]

6. This thread was worthless without a picture

[trumad]

7. Sorry--- like them a couple of years older.

http://www4.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Oakland+Raiders+v+Dallas+Cowboys+wCckRje1ZCYl.jpg

[madinmaryland]

9. Does this post mean you will be changing your avatar??

[Goblinmonger]

4. I kind of get it

It's about not meeting the dress code and the dress code is supposed to be about not creating a distraction. Those skirts would not meet most dress codes at schools around where I teach. So if you let them wear those skirts because they are cheerleaders, why can't anyone wear a skirt that short because it must not be a distraction. On the football field it wouldn't be a distraction to the educational process.

[Iggo]

8. This sounds like an overreaction to people complaining about the dress code.

Kinda like when the gay kids wanted to go to the prom, so they canceled the prom.